Ketu

Someone wrote to me:

You metion Ketu is in the "ecstasy of the touch of the deadly but liberating Sudarshan Chakra of Vishnu." Does this mean Ketu is similar to being void like, yet can really only come alive so to speak by the heart attributes of (God ) Vishnu?

My thoughts:

Vishnu is God, and all good, and his personal weapon used when he is here in this realm is the Sudarshan Chakra, which is the wheel of time so to speak, but it's a disc weapon hurled from the forefinger of Vishnu, and he is always pictured holding it up in the air on his right hand. He protects the good with this, and kills the bad.

When we are here, we are attached to our current bodies, and their sense objects, even though we know for sure we will be kicked out of our entire accumulated situation here at death. Still, we are attached emotionally to this life we are currently in. So death is not welcome.

When one is killed by the Disc of Vishnu, one gets full liberation to the Spiritual World. This is because God is all good. So getting killed by Him has to also be all good. Plus, he says so over and over everywhere in the scriptures where the subject arises.

So Ketu is dieing and getting liberation, so simultaneously he weaps, in a sense, for the loss of the old life, and steps through the door, to the new bliss he is given. This transition period is Ketus energy. Ketu is putting this always on everything- the rainbow of mental transition from one life to the next. So in Ketu dashas, especially if the native has Ketu with Moon or in First house, there will be a loss of identity and individuality while you transition into the new consciousness. It is a rebirth.

The type of ecstasy given by being liberated by being killed by Vishnu is that of Vaikuntha. The soul must go through the Viraj river on the way out of the material world. So some time is spent lamenting, then the rainbow changes and the soul begins to perceive the new light that awaits them, and they are moved forward forcefully by event, and then they begin to realize that they are being lovingly held. The feelings get better. A swim through a river is taken. It washes off all identification with all your past lives. You feel the dropping off of layers of ego and misidentification. It is the Supreme Cleansing process.

On the other side of the Viraj, you come out a spiritual being, and you are taken on a plane through many realms until you arrive at yours. When you get there, you will remember that this is your home, and you will know everything. That is Vaisnava liberation.

Ketu is the moment of death in this world and the transition to new awarenesses. The type of awareness Ketu can give will depend on the sign, and the usual things we look at. Ketu is a loss point to sum it up. A death and rebirth point. At least it increases awareness of those things, and often does some killing in the house it resides. Close to the Moon it brings these matters to the mind repeatedly throughout the life. It gives visions, sensitivities, awarenesses, extremely wide scope and awarenesses.

Because of this nature of His, when in the first house it causes the being itself to experience wideness in life, and therefore lack of identity is the result. The person finds it hard to be firm on anything because they are so very sensitive to impulses. They feel other people very accutely, and all input affects them. They are like walking antennas or antenni, whatever. They pick up everything. If you hold onto their foreheads, you can hear radio stations......(I'm kidding).

So they naturally come into contact with weirdos, that is, Rahu in the 7th, because those weirdos are walking around looking for someone sensitive enough to understand them. It takes a Ketu to like a Rahu, I always say.... (I have Ketu with Moon, Bernadette has Rahu with Moon, so I'm talking about me too here, so if anybodys leaving because they're offended, I'm going too....)

Ketu is the moment of awareness that you don't care anymore because there's no use in caring anyway. It's guaranteed to be over. When He realized that His head was no longer connected to Him, Ketu's identity became separated from Rahu's. At this moment, the intense feeling of inevitability, the moment of death, the most sure event to prove to us that we are not the boss here, is the moment when we flash on all that we will no longer know and see and be with. It is the moment we flash and feel loss, then realize it's absolutely futile to look back, and at that moment the blurry goodness of the blurry light that lies ahead begins to warm your emerging new spiritually confident conscious self at that moment with warm light, and off you go, if you're ready.

Ketu is the moment that the heart stops beating. The quietness at that moment is louder than life actually. It is the sudden missing heartbeat that you thought you couldn't hear usually, that suddenly you realize is no longer there, and after about 2 seconds of that, you meet Ketu in your mind. You are either ready or not. You will be where Ketu was as the disk left the exit side of the throat of Rahu. We will all be there at one moment soon enough.

Ketu dasha, and a nicely placed Ketu, will make the native peep into awareness of Ketu in advance. Such a person accepts predeterminism, and if gifted can side by side accept the appearance of free will as the intent of God for the learning process of the misidentified souls.

Such a detached person, caring neither for defense of either side of this dilemna, accepting that either way there is a flow coming at them called "the environment" which is of it's own nature and whims, not under the control of my emotions. Therefore, the detached and released Ketu realized person becomes then a viewer of the flow with a positive attitude and cooperation. Where divinity is served, they flow, where not, they flow away, they follow the light, not caring for life and death here, because they've accepted it already.

Ketu is the door to liberation. Proper placement and dasha etc will make one realize liberating experiences.

It is the payment they get for how badly Ketu messed up their lives (if it's close to lagna or moon I guarantee you it does some of that).

Thanks,

das